1. IRRAD Facility Infrastructure Upgrade
Blerina Gkotse, Maurice Glaser, Georgi Gorine, Isidre Mateu, Emanuele Matli, Giuseppe Pezzullo, Federico Ravotti
CERN EP-DT, BE-OP
Hello everybody my name is Blerina Gkotse and I’m going to present you the IRRAD Facility Infrastructure Upgrade.
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2. Outline CERN Milestones & Deliverables
CERN Proton irradiation Facility (IRRAD)
Samples manager
Samples manager progress
Samples manager planning
Mini-BPM & single-pad BPM detectors
Beam Profile Monitors (BPM)
Control systems
Samples Manager Dataflow
Irradiation facilities database
Conclusion
So here you have the outline and let’s start will the the CERN Milestones and Deliverables
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3. CERN Milestones & Deliverables
D15.6: CERN Proton Facility Upgrade (all items operational)
MS16: specification for management system and online DB ready & documented
M24
M12
CERN Proton Facility (IRRAD)
Online database on EU irradiation facilities of interest for HEP
Improve IRRAD infrastr. / user friendliness
equip area to store/handle activated materials
sample and user management software system
upgrade contactless fluence monitoring
-Vilnius University
high-granularity & fast Beam Profile Monitor
test sample holders for extremely-high fluence
thermal box to -40ºC for CERN & Birmingham
-University of Sheffield
CERN Gamma Irradiation Facility (GIF++)
Extension / upgrade of GIF++ Gas system
New online dose-rate monitor (INRNE)
Extension of the cosmic ray tracker on the side walls (INFN)
Demonstrator for an augmented reality event display (INFN)
Focus of this presentation
See the talk of Prof. Juozas Vaitkus
D15.7: Radiation Hard Facility Instrumentation ready & installed
M44
See the talk of Michalis Benakis
Here you see all the CERN Milestones and Deliverables but in this talk I will focus mainly to the D15.6 which is more specifically for the samples and user management system as well as the irradiation facilities database.
See the talk of Roberto Guida
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4. Outline CERN Milestones & Deliverables
CERN Proton irradiation Facility (IRRAD)
Samples manager
Samples manager progress
Samples manager planning
Mini-BPM & single-pad BPM detectors
Beam Profile Monitors (BPM)
Control systems
Samples Manager Dataflow
Irradiation facilities database
Conclusion
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5. CERN Proton irradiation Facility (IRRAD)
Testing components of the HEP experiments
Fluence of 1×1016 p/cm2 in 14 days
Beam of 24 GeV/c and size of 12×12 mm2
Scanning also in dimensions of 10×10cm2
Spills of 400msec every ~10sec
Low temperature irradiation (-25°C)
Shuttle System
Access
Chicane
Beam Profile Monitor
IRRAD Tables
BEAM
Detectors
Electronics
Calorimeter samples
Cryostat
with LHe 1.9K
30m
ps-irrad.web.cern.ch
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6. Proton IRRADiation Facility in 2016
Radiation damage studies
Test of prototypes & final assemblies before installation
Test and calibration of components
Registered Experiments (web) 52
49 executed (94%)
Number of users / user teams 28
~70% LHC experiments
Number of samples / irradiated objects
416
246 “SET” numbers
Samples size (MIN/MAX)
2mm × 2mm
250cm × 13cm × 4cm
MAX target proton fluence per experiment
1×1017 p/cm2
(5×5mm2 FWHM)
~27MGy in silicon
Delivered proton (typical MIN/MAX)
~2×1011 p/cm (1 spill)
~4.2×1016 p/cm2 (5×5mm2 FWHM)
~1.6×1016 p/cm2 (20×20mm2 FWHM)
Irradiation time (typical MIN/MAX)
400 ms
~60 days
~76 days
Here we have some statistics as you can see last year in IRRAD we irradiatied 416 samples and this number is expected to grow bigger and bigger each year.
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7. Outline CERN Milestones & Deliverables
CERN Proton irradiation Facility (IRRAD)
Samples manager
Samples manager progress
Samples manager planning
Mini-BPM & single-pad BPM detectors
Beam Profile Monitors (BPM)
Control systems
Samples Manager Dataflow
Irradiation facilities database
Conclusion
That is why we need the samples manager that I will describe now
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8. Samples Manager Old system New system BEAM PROFILE MONITOR DATA
IRRADIATION SYSTEMS CONTROL
SAMPLES DATABASE
BEAM PROFILE MONITOR DATA
ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS
SPECTROMETRY
RADIOACTIVE EQUIPMENT DATABASE
Here you have the old but still in use interface. However for the reason that I previously mentioned we are planning to build a new system that will integrate all the irrad components data. For these components I’m going to speak in a while.
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9. Samples Manager Progress
Current state of the art
Irradiation facilities technology research
Contacting facility owners
Specifications defined
User communities
Features
Use cases
(cds.cern.ch/record/ /files/AIDA-2020-MS16.pdf)
First design approach
Samples manager use case model
But first let’s the progress on this project. We started by the knowledge we had from the irradiations of the IRRAD facility and then we also explored the technologies and the software used in other facilities to manipulate the data. With this knowledge be formed the user communities, the features and the use cases of the IRRAD facility. All these are described in this AIDA-2020-MS16 report. Here you can see some use case and sequence diagrams used there.
Samples irradiation procedure sequence diagram
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10. Samples Manager Planning
Completion of the design
System development
System validation
D15.6
01/02/2016
01/05/2016
01/09/2016
01/12/2016
01/03/2017
01/07/2017
01/07/2017
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11. Samples Manager BEAM PROFILE MONITOR DATA SAMPLES MANAGER
IRRADIATION SYSTEMS CONTROL
SAMPLES DATABASE
BEAM PROFILE MONITOR DATA
ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS
SPECTROMETRY
RADIOACTIVE EQUIPMENT DATABASE
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12. BPM Detectors and DAQ Unit
Fixed BPM
For the beam alignment
Mini and single-pad BPMs
IRRAD tables alignment purpose and “in-beam” detection p+
D15.7: Radiation Hard Facility Instrumentation ready & installed
M44
Fixed-BPM2
Transversal beam profile
Fixed-BPM detector e- p+ p+
BPM DAQ unit 25-35m away from fixed-BPM device.
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13. Beam Profile Monitors (BPMs)
fixed-BPM Gaussian fit
Measured profile
Reference profile
BPM DISPLAY AT CCC
Longitudinal profile provided by central pad charge
Transversal profile
Beam monitoring at CERN Control Center (CCC)
mini BPM Gaussian fit
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14. Upgrade: New 3D Fitting Tool Validation
Better accuracy required by:
CERN Control Center (CCC)
IRRAD team
IRRAD users
Developed within AIDA-2020, D15.7
All BPM channel values included
Initial values for the algorithm: the maximum value and its XY position
SciPy function for least square minimization
Validated over hundreds of spills against other fitting methods
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15. Shuttle-IRRAD1 Description
System to place samples in beam without accessing the area.
No need to stop the beam
Manual control
Software control
Dose rate monitoring
Safe handling of samples as priority
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16. Shuttle-IRRAD1 Control Interfaces
Remote control of the shuttle via Ethernet
Two interfaces:
Administrators-full control
Users-simplified version
Y- Axis positions: Reference, Load, Park and Beam
X-Axis positions: Reference, Park, Pre-Beam and Beam
Counting beam intensity while shuttle in beam
Software interlock when samples radioactivity is too high
Administrator interface
User interface
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17. DAQ and Shuttle Monitoring
Calibration factors
Shuttle positions monitoring (both axis)
Dose rate monitoring (samples radioactivity)
Calculation of the proper timing to place the samples in beam (for short time irradiations)
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18. IRRAD Tables Control XY and theta axis movement Positions definition
Speed definition
Motors calibration
Storage of calibration and system configuration parameters
Positions history
BEAM y θ x
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19. Samples Manager Dataflow
Beam Profile Monitor
IRRAD System controls
Beam longitudinal profile
Temperatures
Beam transversal profile
IRRAD tables positions
Shuttle positions
Beam intensities
Dose rate
SEC
ORACLE DATABASE
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20. Outline CERN Milestones & Deliverables
CERN Proton irradiation Facility (IRRAD)
Samples manager
Samples manager progress
Samples manager planning
Mini-BPM & single-pad BPM detectors
Beam Profile Monitors (BPM)
Control systems
Samples Manager Dataflow
Irradiation facilities database
Conclusion
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21. Irradiation Facilities Database
Facilities worldwide
Unified entry point for irradiation facilities at CERN and worldwide
Essential (but exhaustive) collection of information
165 entries so far
Validation of the data in progress
Homepage
CERN Facilities
irradiation-facilities.web.cern.ch
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22. Irradiation Facilities Database Features
Possibility to create and edit new facilities by the facility owners
Search filters by country, source or radiation field
Irradiation facilities worldwide map
Auto-maintenance (regular reminders)
Open-access data but secured with the CERN authentication system (SSO)
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23. Conclusion Samples manager is on track
The development of the core software has started and expected to be finished by M24
Irradiation facilities database completed ahead of schedule and data are being validated
Once D15.6 completed, the CERN team will further progress on D15.7
Contact:
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24. D ON THANK YOU! IRRADIATON FACILITIES